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OF THE PLUNDERING PIRATES
THE PLUNDERING PIRATE STORY
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THE LEXICON OF PIRATES IN OBSCURITY
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STORY OF THE REAL PLUNDERING PIRATES
DIRECTORY OF THE PIRATE STORY - HOME
Coining Rogue Sea Thieves as Pirates
Coining Rogue Sea Thieves as Pirates
- Profiteering & Buccaneering to Pirating
- Ushering in the Golden Age of Piracy
- Pirate Fact Check Matey
- Lawless Bandits Follow the Pirate Code
- Pirate Democracy & Equality for All
- Rise of a Pirate Archetype
- Glorification & Glitzy Glamorization
- The Allure of Pirate Lore
- Literary Narrative on Pirating Narrative
- Notable Plunders of Booty and Bling
- Notable Crimes and Torture
- Notorious Captures and Hangings
- Bits and Bobs of Notable Notes miscellaneous notes of the pirate life
THE PIRATE NOTABLES
NOTORIOUS NOTABLE PIRATES
Notable BOOTY | TORTURE | HANGINGS
NOTABLE - Bits & Bobs - NOTES
NOTABLE CRIMES AND TALES OF TORTURE
Captain Edward England and his bloodthirsty crew were out for vengeance when they captured their former abusive captain, an old pirate called Skinner. They "laid hold of Skinner, tied him fast to the windlass, and pelted him with glass bottles until they cut him in a shocking manner, then whipped him about the deck until they were quite fatigued, remaining deaf to all his prayers and entreaties; and at last, in an insulting tone, observed, that as he had been a good master to his men, he should have an easy death, and upon this shot him through the head."
In 1718, after accepting a pardon from the governor of North Carolina and taking up residence in the town of Bath, Blackbeard married 16 year-old Mary Ormond. A General History of the Pyrates states that:
"His behaviour in this state was something extraordinary; for, while his sloop lay in Ocracoke Inlet, he was ashore at a plantation where his wife lived, with whom, after he had lain all night, it was his custom to invite five or six of his brutal companions to come ashore, and he would force her to prostitute herself to them all, one after another, before his face."
Blackbeard once shot his second-in-command, Israel Hands (whose name Robert Louis Stevenson would later use for a pirate in Treasure Island) in the knee under the table during a game of cards, unprovoked and rendering the man crippled for life. When Blackbeard was asked the meaning of it, he only answered, “by damning them, that if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was."
According to The Buccaneers of America, Montbars of Languedoc, aptly nicknamed "The Exterminator," would cut open the stomach of his victim, extract one end of his guts, nail it to a post and then force the man to dance to his death while beating his behind with a burning log.
Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer empowered by the British government. He later entered into piracy. Once he used Jesuit priests and nuns as human shields while capturing a ship. He was arrested and tried as a pirate but was saved by King Charles II and was even knighted.
After Henry Morgan's men took Gibraltar, his men tortured a Portuguese man. Four stakes were set into the ground, and the man was suspended between them by cords attached to his thumbs and big toes.
"Then they thrashed upon the cords with great sticks and all their strength, so that the body of this miserable man was ready to perish at every stroke, under the severity of those horrible pains. Not satisfied as yet with this cruel torture, they took a stone which weighed above 200 pound, and laid it upon his belly, as if they intended to press him to death. At which time they also kindled palm leaves, and applied the flame unto the face of this unfortunate Portuguese, burning with them the whole skin, beard and hair."
Black Bart, a Welsh pirate, plundered over 400 ships and once burned an entire ship with 80 live slaves as the ship’s captain refused to pay the ransom. During one takeover of a 52-gun warship, he hung the Governor of Martinique from his own ship and then tortured and killed the Governor’s French crew before taking the ship as his own.
"Whipping and pickling" involved splashing whip wounds with brine and was a common torture tactic used by merchant officers against their crewmen.
François l’Olonnais, a French pirate who was active during the 1660s, was known to have killed everybody on the ships he plundered. He even cut out a person’s heart who refused to share information and ate it in front of other passengers. He even beheaded an entire crew.
Cheng I Sao, the Chinese prostitute who became a pirate, commanded 80,000 outlaws and beheaded anyone who disobeyed her. She could not be defeated by the Qing Dynasty Chinese officials or even by the Portuguese and British bounty hunters. She was among very few pirates who actually retired from piracy with her loot.
Edward “Ned” Low once burnt a ship with the cook tied at the mast because he felt the cook was “a greasy fellow” who would sizzle in the fire. In another instance, he slashed off the lips of the captain of a captured Portuguese ship with a cutlass, broiled them, and forced the victim to eat them while still hot. Low's captured quartermaster, Nicholas Lewis described this detail:
"Low cut off the said Mster's lips and broiled them before his face, and afterwards murdered the whole crew being thirty-two persons."
Captain Edward England and his bloodthirsty crew were out for vengeance when they captured their former abusive captain, an old pirate called Skinner. They "laid hold of Skinner, tied him fast to the windlass, and pelted him with glass bottles until they cut him in a shocking manner, then whipped him about the deck until they were quite fatigued, remaining deaf to all his prayers and entreaties; and at last, in an insulting tone, observed, that as he had been a good master to his men, he should have an easy death, and upon this shot him through the head."
In 1718, after accepting a pardon from the governor of North Carolina and taking up residence in the town of Bath, Blackbeard married 16 year-old Mary Ormond. A General History of the Pyrates states that:
"His behaviour in this state was something extraordinary; for, while his sloop lay in Ocracoke Inlet, he was ashore at a plantation where his wife lived, with whom, after he had lain all night, it was his custom to invite five or six of his brutal companions to come ashore, and he would force her to prostitute herself to them all, one after another, before his face."
Blackbeard once shot his second-in-command, Israel Hands (whose name Robert Louis Stevenson would later use for a pirate in Treasure Island) in the knee under the table during a game of cards, unprovoked and rendering the man crippled for life. When Blackbeard was asked the meaning of it, he only answered, “by damning them, that if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was."
According to The Buccaneers of America, Montbars of Languedoc, aptly nicknamed "The Exterminator," would cut open the stomach of his victim, extract one end of his guts, nail it to a post and then force the man to dance to his death while beating his behind with a burning log.
Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer empowered by the British government. He later entered into piracy. Once he used Jesuit priests and nuns as human shields while capturing a ship. He was arrested and tried as a pirate but was saved by King Charles II and was even knighted.
After Henry Morgan's men took Gibraltar, his men tortured a Portuguese man. Four stakes were set into the ground, and the man was suspended between them by cords attached to his thumbs and big toes.
"Then they thrashed upon the cords with great sticks and all their strength, so that the body of this miserable man was ready to perish at every stroke, under the severity of those horrible pains. Not satisfied as yet with this cruel torture, they took a stone which weighed above 200 pound, and laid it upon his belly, as if they intended to press him to death. At which time they also kindled palm leaves, and applied the flame unto the face of this unfortunate Portuguese, burning with them the whole skin, beard and hair."
Black Bart, a Welsh pirate, plundered over 400 ships and once burned an entire ship with 80 live slaves as the ship’s captain refused to pay the ransom. During one takeover of a 52-gun warship, he hung the Governor of Martinique from his own ship and then tortured and killed the Governor’s French crew before taking the ship as his own.
"Whipping and pickling" involved splashing whip wounds with brine and was a common torture tactic used by merchant officers against their crewmen.
François l’Olonnais, a French pirate who was active during the 1660s, was known to have killed everybody on the ships he plundered. He even cut out a person’s heart who refused to share information and ate it in front of other passengers. He even beheaded an entire crew.
Cheng I Sao, the Chinese prostitute who became a pirate, commanded 80,000 outlaws and beheaded anyone who disobeyed her. She could not be defeated by the Qing Dynasty Chinese officials or even by the Portuguese and British bounty hunters. She was among very few pirates who actually retired from piracy with her loot.
Edward “Ned” Low once burnt a ship with the cook tied at the mast because he felt the cook was “a greasy fellow” who would sizzle in the fire. In another instance, he slashed off the lips of the captain of a captured Portuguese ship with a cutlass, broiled them, and forced the victim to eat them while still hot. Low's captured quartermaster, Nicholas Lewis described this detail:
"Low cut off the said Mster's lips and broiled them before his face, and afterwards murdered the whole crew being thirty-two persons."
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The words were invented - just like Star Trek - to build a vocabulary for the genre. The colorful words and phrases don’t come from Pirates. The authentic words refer to ships, sails, food, gear etc. These are part of the vernacular of the time period and come from nautical sources or the military. Read more here. This dictionary is formed from real words and terms used in Golden Age and the jargon for sailors and shipbuilding. The pirate specific terms come from Johnson’s nonfiction pirate reference book written in the late 17th century. See it here.
And the dictionary contains the slang you need to Talk Like a Pirate in September.
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The words were invented - just like Star Trek - to build a vocabulary for the genre. The colorful words and phrases don’t come from Pirates. The authentic words refer to ships, sails, food, gear etc. These are part of the vernacular of the time period and come from nautical sources or the military. Read more here. This dictionary is formed from real words and terms used in Golden Age and the jargon for sailors and shipbuilding. The pirate specific terms come from Johnson’s nonfiction pirate reference book written in the late 17th century. See it here.
And the dictionary contains the slang you need to Talk Like a Pirate in September.
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View the rare, unusual and obscure words - some even obsolete - that apply to pirates, their lives and their world. Obscure words form the very foundation of this site - the dictionary is like giving you an expected wage. The lexicon is giving you a share of the best booty and the bling.
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